The New Hampshire Gazette

From a LONDON PAPER:

To the EDITOR of the COURIER.

SIR,

When the crimes of ROBESPIERRE and his Republican associates were first announced in this country, the Minister's Friends, the Contractors, Loan-Jobbers, Court-Dependants, all, all seemed furious with horror and indignation at the recital; it appeared that the language wanted words of sufficient energy to mark the atrocity of the deeds: but when 20,000 men, women, and children, were methodically murdered in cold blood at Ismail, and above half as many at Warsaw, the nature of the deed was wholly altered, the criminality not consisting in the actions themselves but in the agency that produced them, and what was diabolical and infernal in a Republican was a mere peccadillo, a venal fault, or perhaps, even a salutary chastisement when put in execution by the instruments of despotic Courts. But, Sir, I confess I am one of those wicked Democrats, who conceive that there may be Royal as well as Republican crimes, and that if the evils and calamities which the world has groaned under for thousands of years be traced to their source, they may be deduced from other origins than either systems of Republicanism, or the unquiet minds of those who have ventured to assert the Rights of Mankind. I mean this as a short introduction to an extract of a letter I received, soon after the transaction, from a German Officer who was present at the massacre at Ismail: The scene of carnage and desolation was far beyond my conception of even the atrocities of Tartar-hordes, I will not harass your feelings by entering into a detail of these horrors; I shall only just inform you, that for three successive days, men, women, and children, age, youth, beauty, and innocence, were involved in one indiscriminate massacre; the open country had been deserted previous to the siege, and the inhabitants with their wives and children, to the amount of many thousands, had fled to the town for shelter—I believe I may venture to say, that out of this defenceless multitude, not fifty escaped. I did as much as an individual could to check the horrors of the scene, but my exertions were fruitless, as all I was able to do was to rescue a little innocent of about three years old from a second thrust of a bayonet, when probably the first was mortal. I saw hundreds of these poor children torn from their mothers' arms, and tossed from one ruffian to another at the ends of their pikes; and an object even of amusement and mirth to these monsters was, pursuing the trembling fugitives to the upper stories of the houses and throwing them down one by one into the streets."

I will not, Mr. Editor, put the feelings of your humane readers to the torture, by relating all my friend writes, but there is every reason to suppose that the same atrocities were repeated at Warsaw; while the principal agent, in his letter which you have communicated to the public, impiously appeals to God, to the God of Mercy, as his guide, guardian, and protector. Now Sir, let those who are perpetually vociferating the cruelties of Republicans, find a parallel for the above extract.

PROBUS.